Management Of Offenders Bill

Holyrood has passed the Management of Offenders Bill, which aims strengthen powers of recall from home detention curfew (HDC) by introducing a new offence of remaining unlawfully at large and granting police greater powers to help apprehend anyone who absconds. The legislation allows the use of

Scottish Greens justice spokesperson John Finnie MSP will today propose an amendment to the Management of Offenders Bill to remove any role for the private sector in the existing or proposed expanded monitoring regime. The Justice Committee will begin its stage 2 consideration of the bill, which &ld

Proposals to increase the use of electronic tags and reduce the period for which people with prior convictions must disclose them have received the backing of MSPs on the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee. The measures form part of a wider Management of Offenders Bill, that would allow t